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BBC:
Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat says he will resign in January, after coming under fire for his handling of the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia — Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has announced on national TV that he will step down in the new year, amid a crisis over a murdered journalist.
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The Guardian, Press Gazette, The Daphne Caruana …, @jamesrbuk, @arun_ram, @lotteleicht1, @breesanna, Reuters and The Week
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Juliette Garside / The Guardian:
Prosecutors in Malta have charged Yorgen Fenech, a prominent businessman in the country, with complicity in the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia — Yorgen Fenech entered not guilty plea to charges relating to killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia — A businessman has been charged …
Charles Riley / CNN:
EU antitrust regulator launches preliminary investigations into how Google and Facebook gather, process, use, and monetize data for advertising purposes — London (CNN Business)Europe's top antitrust regulator is probing how Google and Facebook use data, putting the companies' huge advertising businesses in the spotlight once again.
New York Times:
NYT Editorial Board says Trump's attacks on the media are damaging democracy globally by legitimising the practice of pretending that facts don't exist — “Concocting fake news to attract eyeballs is a habitual trick of America's New York Times, and this newspaper suffered a crisis …
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Chairman of UK's News Media Association calls on political parties to end the practice of mimicking local newspapers with their election campaign material — News UK chief operating officer David Dinsmore has backed the call for political parties to “immediately end” the practice …
Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
Susan Wojcicki on YouTube's stance on political ads, hate speech, conspiracy theories, and if it should be morally responsible for the content it recommends — YouTube's mission is to give everyone a voice, but the site's open platform has opened the door to hate.
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Business Insider, The Hill, @rationaldis, @hunterwalk, @hshaban, @lutherlowe, @nickmartin, @slpng_giants and CNET, more at Techmeme »
Lindsey Ellefson / The Wrap:
David Pemsel, who was set to leave his job as Guardian CEO in early 2020, stepped down early after messages to a female former Guardian colleague were revealed — Pemsel planned to stay on until 2020 when he'd begin leading the Premier League, but he prematurely resigned amid tabloid reports on his personal life
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Ad Age, Wall Street Journal, Guido Fawkes, SportsPro Media, Financial Times, Mumbrella and Business Insider
Ethan Zuckerman / Columbia Journalism Review:
Imagining a better web, using the history of radio globally as a guide, and rethinking assumptions about the commercial internet's venture capital-backed rise — What would social media look like if it served the public interest? — Over the course of a few short years, a technological revolution shook the world.
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@librarieseu, @thorntonaustin, @mau_mejiag, @medialab, Scott Lamb's i18n and The Guardian
Jim Waterson / The Guardian:
UK's Liberal Democrats suspend a senior member of their campaign after he forged an email while demanding retraction of a story by the website openDemocracy — Party had sought retraction of journalist's story about alleged sale of voter data — The Liberal Democrats have suspended …
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@shutupandrosky and @dawnhfoster
Max Willens / Digiday:
Forbes acquires stock prediction service Quantalytics AI Labs; source: Forbes' non-ad revenue almost doubled from 18% of annual total in 2014 to 33%+ in 2019 — At the beginning of 2019, Forbes Media had just finished celebrating its most profitable year in a decade and had begun hunting for companies it could invest in or buy.
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Newsweek fires reporter for writing an inaccurate article about Trump's Thanksgiving Day plans; reporter blames editor who failed to update her original piece — The Newsweek reporter who was fired after writing an inaccurate article about President Trump's Thanksgiving Day plans is deflecting some of the blame onto her editor.
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New York Daily News, Talking Points Memo, @mikebrestdc, HuffPost, Deadline, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Fox News and Breitbart
The Verge:
The PIRATE Act, passed by the House, would increase the amount and kinds of fines faced by pirate radios, which often service unrepresented local communities — When she was growing up in East Flatbush among the Haitian diaspora, former pirate broadcaster Joan Martinez …
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@fooconner and @knguyen
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